This article follows the lead of several researchers who claim there is an urgent need to utilize insights from the arts, aesthetics and the humanities to expand our understanding of leadership. It endeavours to do this by exploring the metaphor of dance. It begins by critiquing current policy metaphors used in the leadership literature that…

Scrutinizes the use of biographical narrative as a device for constructing leadership models for schools. The historic figure of Che Guevara (as reconstructed in Peter McLaren's article) is not appropriate as a model for contemporary school leadership, due to outdated ideologies. More wide-ranging aesthetic criticism should undergird school…

Criticizes Maxcy's failure to understand Ernesto "Che" Guevara's reconstruction as an exemplary postmodern educational leader. The author presented a leadership model providing dialectical critique and an attentiveness to political economy. Postmodernism overlooks the significance of Guevara's efforts to resist global capitalist…